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Title: | Different pattern of contamination by legacy POPs in two populations from the same geographical area but with completely different lifestyles: Canary Islands (Spain) vs. Morocco | Authors: | Henríquez Hernández, Luis Alberto Pérez Luzardo, Octavio Luis Pérez Arellano, José Luis Carranza Rodríguez, Cristina Jaén Sánchez, Nieves Almeida-González, Maira Ruiz-Suárez, Norberto Fernández Valerón, Josefa Pilar Camacho, Maria Zumbado, M. Domínguez Boada, Luis María |
UNESCO Clasification: | 32 Ciencias médicas 3214 Toxicología |
Keywords: | Canary Islands Lifestyle Morocco Persistent organic pollutants Polychlorinated biphenyls, et al |
Issue Date: | 2016 | Journal: | Science of the Total Environment | Abstract: | The archipelago of the Canary Islands is one of the so-called ultra-peripheral territories of the European Union due to its geographical location away from the continent. Although the level of socioeconomic development and lifestyle of this region is comparable to that of any other of the European Union, it is just 100 km off the coast of Morocco, in the African continent. The population of the Canaries has been extensively studied with respect to their levels of POPs, and it has been described that their levels are relatively high compared to other European regions. It has been speculated with that the proximity to Africa may be associated with this level of contamination, but so far this theory has not been verified. This paper describes for the first time the levels of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in a sample of the population of Morocco (n = 131), which were compared with those of a similar sample of the population of permanent residents in the Canary Islands (n = 100) in order to check this hypothesis. Our results showed that Moroccans have higher median values of OCPs than the residents in the Canaries (σ OCP = 150.2 ng/g lw vs. 83.4 ng/g lw, p = 0.0001). Regarding the PCBs, although recent studies have reported that new environmental sources of PCBs exist in several African countries (including Morocco), the plasma levels of most congeners were significantly higher in Canarians than in Moroccans, especially for the dioxin-like PCBs (median = 7.3 ng/g lw vs. 0.0 ng/g lw, p = 0.0001). The detailed analysis of our results suggests that the levels of these pollutants in the Canarian people are more influenced by their lifestyle and the previous use of these chemicals in the archipelago than by its geographical vicinity with Morocco. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10553/52630 | ISSN: | 0048-9697 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.09.042 | Source: | Science of the Total Environment [ISSN 0048-9697], v. 541, p. 51-57, ( 2016) |
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